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Ruined by democrat corruption California sues over Trump administration's plan to pull nearly $1B for high-speed rail project
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Leroy N. Soetoro
May 26, 2019, 5:14:52 PM5/26/19
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California on Tuesday sued the Trump administration for pulling nearly $1
billion in federal funding from the state’s high-speed rail project – a
multiyear, over-budget proposal that President Trump repeatedly has mocked
and Republicans have vowed to shut down.
The Federal Railroad Administration announced last week it would not give
the Golden State money awarded by Congress nearly a decade ago because not
enough progress had been made on the project.
The state has to complete construction on a part of the track in the
Central Valley agricultural heartland by 2022 to keep the money but the
Trump administration has argued there’s no way California will be able to
meet the deadline.
The state’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom claims pulling federal funding
has more to do with California’s criticism of Trump’s controversial
immigration policies and less to do with a high-speed bullet train.
The state is also seeking a temporary restraining order to ask a judge to
prevent the Trump administration from repurposing the money, the
governor’s office said.
"The decision was precipitated by President Trump's overt hostility to
California, its challenge to his border wall initiatives, and what he
called the "green disaster" high-speed rail project," the state said in
the lawsuit.
California has spent more than a decade trying to bring high-speed rail
service between Los Angeles and San Francisco, but the project has been
plagued by delays and has blown through every budget it has had.
It is now projected to cost around $77 billion and be finished by 2033.
The $929 million the Trump administration wants to take back is key for a
Central Valley track segment expected to cost about $12 billion.
California was not expected to tap that funding until 2021.
The state already has spent $2.5 billion in federal funding, and the Trump
administration is exploring whether it can try to get that money back.
California’s embattled bullet train project has been an embarrassment for
the state and has been plagued by problems almost from the start.
The idea was long championed by Newsom's predecessor, Jerry Brown.
Bullet train planners had been under increasing pressure to make progress
on the system that many believe had no plausible way of living up to its
goal of getting riders across the state in three hours or less.
California voters approved the pricey proposal in 2008. Backers –
including several Democratic lawmakers – heralded it as an inventive
concept that would connect Californians and transform transit policies
down the road.
But critics claimed the bullet train project was a waste of time and
money.
“This so-called bullet train is a solution in search of a problem that is
plagued by billions of dollars in cost overruns and fiscal mismanagement,”
San Diego Councilman Mark Kersey told Fox News in 2018, adding that the
billions spent on the project “could have been invested in our current
infrastructure needs, such as water storage, flood control, highways and
bridges.”
Fox News’ Bill Mears and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
--
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
The Obama-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
approved Uranium One in fall 2010. With a little luck, we'll see
compulsive liar Hillary Clinton in jail before she dies.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
administrations-plan-to-pull-nearly-1b-for-high-speed-rail-project
California on Tuesday sued the Trump administration for pulling nearly $1
billion in federal funding from the state’s high-speed rail project – a
multiyear, over-budget proposal that President Trump repeatedly has mocked
and Republicans have vowed to shut down.
The Federal Railroad Administration announced last week it would not give
the Golden State money awarded by Congress nearly a decade ago because not
enough progress had been made on the project.
The state has to complete construction on a part of the track in the
Central Valley agricultural heartland by 2022 to keep the money but the
Trump administration has argued there’s no way California will be able to
meet the deadline.
The state’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom claims pulling federal funding
has more to do with California’s criticism of Trump’s controversial
immigration policies and less to do with a high-speed bullet train.
The state is also seeking a temporary restraining order to ask a judge to
prevent the Trump administration from repurposing the money, the
governor’s office said.
"The decision was precipitated by President Trump's overt hostility to
California, its challenge to his border wall initiatives, and what he
called the "green disaster" high-speed rail project," the state said in
the lawsuit.
California has spent more than a decade trying to bring high-speed rail
service between Los Angeles and San Francisco, but the project has been
plagued by delays and has blown through every budget it has had.
It is now projected to cost around $77 billion and be finished by 2033.
The $929 million the Trump administration wants to take back is key for a
Central Valley track segment expected to cost about $12 billion.
California was not expected to tap that funding until 2021.
The state already has spent $2.5 billion in federal funding, and the Trump
administration is exploring whether it can try to get that money back.
California’s embattled bullet train project has been an embarrassment for
the state and has been plagued by problems almost from the start.
The idea was long championed by Newsom's predecessor, Jerry Brown.
Bullet train planners had been under increasing pressure to make progress
on the system that many believe had no plausible way of living up to its
goal of getting riders across the state in three hours or less.
California voters approved the pricey proposal in 2008. Backers –
including several Democratic lawmakers – heralded it as an inventive
concept that would connect Californians and transform transit policies
down the road.
But critics claimed the bullet train project was a waste of time and
money.
“This so-called bullet train is a solution in search of a problem that is
plagued by billions of dollars in cost overruns and fiscal mismanagement,”
San Diego Councilman Mark Kersey told Fox News in 2018, adding that the
billions spent on the project “could have been invested in our current
infrastructure needs, such as water storage, flood control, highways and
bridges.”
Fox News’ Bill Mears and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
--
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
The Obama-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
approved Uranium One in fall 2010. With a little luck, we'll see
compulsive liar Hillary Clinton in jail before she dies.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
BeamMeUpScotty
May 26, 2019, 8:22:25 PM5/26/19
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On 5/26/19 5:14 PM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
> https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-sues-over-trump-
> administrations-plan-to-pull-nearly-1b-for-high-speed-rail-project
>
> California on Tuesday sued the Trump administration for pulling nearly $1
> billion in federal funding from the state’s high-speed rail project – a
> multiyear, over-budget proposal that President Trump repeatedly has mocked
> and Republicans have vowed to shut down.
Looks like California should have stuck to the deal.... when they
> https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-sues-over-trump-
> administrations-plan-to-pull-nearly-1b-for-high-speed-rail-project
>
> California on Tuesday sued the Trump administration for pulling nearly $1
> billion in federal funding from the state’s high-speed rail project – a
> multiyear, over-budget proposal that President Trump repeatedly has mocked
> and Republicans have vowed to shut down.
failed to live up to the elements in the document they signed, they lost
the right to claim that they are competent.
That money belongs to we the people NOT California.
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